NEW ORLEANS — A decade after Hurricane Katrina hit this ... to try to identify the dead. But Cataldie confirms medical records lost to floodwater, badly decomposed bodies and collecting DNA ...

The official ranks of Hurricane Katrina’s dead include a New Orleans man fatally ... Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard said this week that the bodies recovered from a nursing home and ...

While hundreds drowned in Hurricane Katrina's filthy floodwaters ... Coroners examining the 1,090 bodies recovered in and around New Orleans occasionally find something suspicious: a bullet ...

Katrina also retains its rank as the third-highest death toll from a hurricane in recorded U.S. history, behind the estimated 8,000 dead in the ... and to identify the bodies.

There are many challenges in the collection of bodies, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann: Identifying the dead ... to families scattered by Hurricane Katrina and said FEMA would ...

is now facing scrutiny over his gripping accounts of Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that burnished his nightly news bona fides almost a decade ago. Related story: Brian Williams' credibility ...

A grim reminder of the catastrophic institutional failures associated with Hurricane Katrina ... Working backward from the 45 dead bodies discovered in Memorial Hospital, it’s a compelling ...

Four years later, researchers still count New Orleans' Katrina dead, parsing them into categories ... the construction of a fortress at home: a hurricane-resistant shelter that city officials ...

Most Hurricane Katrina relief efforts are focused ... power and medical attention. The dead are a lower priority, and many bodies have been putrefying since the water receded Monday.

NEW ORLEANS — They lie in silvery airtight caskets in a rented warehouse near the Louisiana Superdome or in black body bags stacked ... Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, 49 of the storm's ...

The staggering count — which makes Helene the deadliest storm to hit the US since Hurricane Katrina killed 1,392 in 2005 — covers six states across the south. Among the dead are a number of ...